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Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Hey everybody, welcome to the

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Speaker 1: Buck Brief. On this episode, we have David de Rosiers

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Speaker 1: with us. He is the publisher of Real Clear Politics,

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Speaker 1: a great man. Going to talk to us a bit

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Speaker 1: about censorship in politics and also the samas Dot Prize

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Speaker 1: gala at the Breakers in Palm Beach, So I'm actually

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Speaker 1: gonna go to. A bunch of my friends will be there.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about this big event why it is so

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Speaker 1: important in the era we live in. David, first, tell

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Speaker 1: us about samas dot and welcome.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me Buck. Samas Dot is Russian for

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Speaker 2: underground publishing. You know, sadly, we're going to do this

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Speaker 2: on the eve of the State of the Union. This

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Speaker 2: is going to be our own State of the Union

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Speaker 2: where we really think that, you know, we're moving in

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Speaker 2: a direction that's bad with regards to one of our

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Speaker 2: founding cornerstones of the way we should conduct our lives

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Speaker 2: in our politics, the First Amendment. And you know, we

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Speaker 2: really think that, you know, the First Amendment is not

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Speaker 2: trending well and we want to praise those uh, you know,

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Speaker 2: intrepid souls that stand up for the rest of us

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Speaker 2: so we can remain free.

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Speaker 1: What is samas don.

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Speaker 2: As I said, it's it's Russian for underground publishing. You know,

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Speaker 2: it was the give me.

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Speaker 1: The history, Give me the history a little bit, tell

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was, uh, you know the reason you know,

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Speaker 2: the Gulag Archipelago souls and Eatson, the lie killer that

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Speaker 2: was that book had to be smuggled into their own countries.

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Speaker 2: So the greatest dissident thinkers that we have come to

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Speaker 2: know that really challenged the lie that was Soviet communism.

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Speaker 2: And you know, and even in any type of regime

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Speaker 2: that is suffering from material of the mind.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you can see Vakloff hovel.

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Speaker 2: You know it's you had to get under you know,

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Speaker 2: you went underground to get above ground. And what we

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Speaker 2: a country that's been committed to the First Amendment for

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Speaker 2: want to call attention to that turn. Show people the

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Speaker 2: trajectory of where we're going. If we don't stand up

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Speaker 2: to it now, it's not going to get better, it's

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Speaker 2: on Thursday, March seventh is to highlight, you know, three

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Speaker 2: intrepid people that we think kind of show what a

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Speaker 1: Why do you think it is that in this era

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Speaker 1: of increasing censorship, And I think it's obvious when you

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Speaker 1: and very active. Journalists aren't speaking out in general. I

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Speaker 1: and we need to defend free speech, even if it's

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was an Atlantic study that came out a

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Speaker 2: We've raised the generation of people that really, their policy

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Speaker 2: So there's been a movement in the American mind and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as we know, not only is their censorship, but

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Speaker 2: that comes with being a representative of the Fourth Amendment,

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Speaker 3: You know, the government's not supposed to.

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Speaker 2: Do it, regardless of whether a private company wants them

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Speaker 3: They're not allowed to do that.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I think you see in the journalists

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Speaker 2: journalism should be. You know, Matt and Miranda to share,

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Speaker 2: fearless reporting. And sadly, you know that type of reporting

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Speaker 1: We'll get back into where this all goes, especially in

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Speaker 1: first off, you know, I hear that some people are

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Speaker 1: that just doesn't make sense to me. Have we already

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Speaker 1: potential for major catastrophe on the world stage that will

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Speaker 1: affect the value of the US dollar. Well, you can

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Speaker 1: look to precious metals for a whole range of regions.

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Speaker 1: One having tangible currency on hand, a bug out plant.

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Speaker 1: Two portfolio diversification, hedge against inflation, and then as a

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Speaker 1: and silver on hand yourself. Nobody can break the future,

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Speaker 1: but we can't put our heads in the sand either.

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Speaker 1: It's time to take action. The Oxford Gold Group are pros.

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Speaker 1: They'll help you get gold and silver on hand. I

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Speaker 1: I think you should too. Call them right now. You

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Speaker 1: That's eight three three nine nine five gold. Eight three

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Speaker 1: three nine nine five gold. What do people on the right, David,

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Speaker 1: fact that now censorship is Yes, it's top down, it's

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Speaker 1: government and private sector colluding. That there's all. But it's

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Speaker 1: also increasingly mechanized. Right, it's not even necessarily a person.

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Speaker 2: I think that conservatives have to wake up to the

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Speaker 2: So you have two folks from you know, from prestigious

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Speaker 2: Global Disinformation Index is what it stands for. And Real

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Speaker 2: disinformation and the purpose of this was to really have

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Speaker 2: They are behind the scenes being browned out through advertising starvation.

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Speaker 2: So I think that this is you know, first of all,

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Speaker 2: check my Ads that if you don't follow this advice,

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Speaker 1: All right, David, before we let you go, tell everybody

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can find it on Real Clear. Any of

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Speaker 2: the Real Clear site should have an advertising up for it.

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Speaker 2: We're going to have it down at the Breakers March seventh,

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Speaker 2: this Thursday. There's still tickets available, and you know there's

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Speaker 3: I would and again I don't think you would mind.

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Speaker 2: It's like we're going to have we're going to honor

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Speaker 2: You know, the Pubitur Prize has bent the arc of journalism,

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Speaker 1: There we go, David de Roziers of Real Clear Politics.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. I will see you Thursday. I hope

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Speaker 1: David Bucks, my fancy moves on the dance floor. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much, David. Good to see you.

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